The Arizona sentinel., 1887-02-26
STORIES OF DOCTORS.
Queer Things About the Men Who HoIG
 Our Lives in Their Hands.

Our Lives in Their Hands.
 A woman in New York near fifty has been a cripple for years, and has sui fered intensely. She spent thousands and thousands of dollars in obtaining the best medical advice, but to nc purpose. Lately she consulted mounte- bank, who gave her a prescription which expelled a tape-worm, of which the regular practitioners had entertained no suspicion.
 A doctor who has been in practice in New York for nearly forty years had, some months ago, an agonizing pain in his Joins which unftted him for work. As doctors rarely treat themselves, he had recourse to about a dozen of the most distinguished physicians in town for their diagnosis. Each one differed from the other, and not one's opinion agreed with his own. Many predicted his speedy death; but he cured himself in few weeks, and has had no return of the disorder since.
 Recently, a well-known rich finan- cier, having suffered for months from severe headache, sought relief at the hands, one after another, of all the doctors in Boston. They told him that his brain was affected, that his kidneys were diseased, that he had liver com plaint, that it was the indirect result of neuralgia, etc. Each and all prescribed a remedy. He tried the various reme- dies, but none of them was of any avail Finally he went abroad for his health, and, being in Vienna, consulted an emi- nent physician there, who told him he had polypus in the nose, and that it ought to be removed immediately. The operation, simple one, was performed, and the financier had no more pain in his head.
 A successful doctor will claim that the patient has an abscess in the liver q very serious affection, and will puncture the flesh with a small, sharp syringe, and pretend to withdraw the pus, reported to be a chemical mixture he has furtively introduced into the in- strument. The effect of this on the mind of man believing himself to be afflicted with so dangerous an abscess may be readily imagined. The fancied pus removed, the ahscess will heal; a complete cure is wrought. Who would not pay liberally to be thus rid of mighty peril.
 After the Empress Eugenie had given birth to the Prince Imperial an i'm portant operation was necessary, and all the celebrated doctors of Paris and several American doc tors resident there were called in, among them Dr. Johnson, now dead. During her treatment it was found to their consternation that the blood had left her brain. She was in momentary peril of losing her life. A solemn consultation took place. No body could advise except Johnson, who declared he could remedy the evil. He held her up by the heels and the blood flowed back to her brain. He saved her life. Not one of the Parisian sages would have dreamed of offering so monstrous an indignity to the Empress of the French, but the indignity, as they afterward acknowledged, was preferable to her death.
 A millionaire named Parrish had grave ailment and several leading physicians were summoned, but none of them gave him relief. Then doctor, able, but often rude in manners and speech, was called in and rendered the desired service. His bill was one thousand dollars, which Parrish de- rlined to liouidate on the ground that